YMCA Night Law School - Triangle Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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,' Q. K I ., -'4f-rN1.- Attired in his new suit and with a bundle under his arm, Fee Simple boarded the hlail Hack, which carried him to town and High School. By special arrangement, he was able to complete the required course in three years, and by borrowing a small sum of money was able to take a short Commercial course. On completion of this course, he received in answer to an appli- cation, a request that he call for an interview. On complying with this request, he was taken into a private office and there caused to disclose many secrets af his past life. This third degree, to which the Spanish Inquisition was mild in comparison, wound up by Fee being given a pencil and notebook and required to take a letter which contained words and phrases that were as strange to him as was the language of the Zulus. To invent shorthand characters and keep up with the dictation simultaneously is impossible with the student stenographerg consequently the letter was a hopeless muddle. You can imagine his surprise when he was told to report for duty the following week. He left the oflcice without his hat, feeling that at last he had the World by its caudal appendage. Thus Fee Simple became a railway clerk, which position he held with credit for a period of three years. After being employed as such for about a year he began to realize that his chances for getting ahead in this field were exceedingly slim, as the most of his fellow employees had been with the company for years and those who held superior positions appeared to be in good health, Fee felt that it. would be useless to stick around with the hope that a better position would open up, causa mortis. Further, the old ambition to be a lawyer was asserting itself, and could not be smothered. It has been aptly said that he that hath ambition has one foot in hell,', and it appeared to Fee Simple that this was especially true where the victim of ambition was pursuing an occupation that was so far removed from ambi- .tion's aim. So he resigned his position as clerk and took up the study of law. And thus my story, being written about a Law Student who is still in school, must end here, contrary to the conventional manner of ending stories with the death of the villain, the making of millions by the hero and subsequent marriage to the heroine, etc. Should you, a few years hence, see the following on a plate glass window: FEE SIMPLE Attorney at Law walk in and hear the rest of the story from the lips of hir. Simple himself. The End 57

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